Machinery guard



y 1944' H. v. NEWELL I 2,350,247

' MACHINERY GUARD Filed July 12, 1943 Patented May 30, 1944 UNKTED gTATES E ATENT OFFICE MACHINERY GUARD Harold Vincent Newell, Coventry, England, assignor of one-fourth to Arthur Morris, one- Application July 12, 1943, Serial No. 494,397 In Great Britain November 13, 1942 1 Claim. (Cl. 74612) This invention relates to a guard for use in such as the cottar pins to at the free ends of the protecting machine operators from accidental inguide rods [3. When the drilling operation is the tool and the work-piece. tance beyond the working stroke of the drill the With this object in view the invention consists guard in this case being in its fully extended in the provision of a machinery guard comprisstate as shown in Figure 2 with the cottar pins work-piece, said members having a telescopic enures 6 and 7, there may be associated with one the action of resilient means normally retaining 9, to engage a groove IT in the adjacent guide the stationary member in its operative position rod i3 to retain said bottom member in the raised with respect to the work-piece. position shown in Figure 3. In order to facilitate In the accompanying drawing, access to the tool or to the work-piece, the guard, Figure 1 is a general view illustrating the imas shown in Figures 4 and 5 is preferably made proved guard in position of use on a drilling of a deep channel section with the open side l8 machine. facing away from the operator. For the purposes Figure 2 is a front view of the guard in its of inspection the front of the guard may be fully extended state and onalarger scale. formed with a series of slots l9 so that the Figure 3 is a side view of the guard in its fully progress of the machining operation may be safecontracted state. ly watched. The upper part of the guard may Figure4is aplan of the guard. also be provided at the front with a slot 20 to Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view thereof on facilitate removal of the drill from the usual the line ;t:t of Figure 2. chuck by means of a drift tool,

Figure 6 is an enlarged detail view of the lock- A similar type of guard may be employed with ing catch. advantage in connection with fly and power Figure 7is aplan view thereof. presses in which case one member of the tele- According to the specific construction shown in opi guard Will be hed to r engaged wi h t e drawing, as applied to drilling and like mathe head carrying the punch so as to enclose to the reciprocating drill head soas to enclose a nst he table by t e Spring or Sprin so as and out of engagement withawork-piece mount A guard of the kind herein referred to can ed on the table 5 of the machine, 01' on a jig or also be used with like advantages and in a sim-' the guard, which is preferably made in two tele- 40 hap a milling machines scopic parts 7, Bis held in contact with and about In every case the actual machining operation the work-piece or with the said jig or fixture, as i C r ed ut W t n the uard and even When -p1ece, comprising a guard. In this way the operator is at all times longitudinally adjustable channel-section mem- The object of making the relatively stationary member adapted to enclose the tool and having member of the guard in two parts 1 8 is to proa clip for attachment to a head carrying said vide for drills of different lengths. For this pur- 5:; tool, said second channel-section member hav- Relative movement between the members 2 and 8 of the guard is limited by means of stops, HAROLD VINCENT NEWEIL, 

